There are 30 great jobs in the NBA, and I've got one of them.
Ninety percent of our managers started in the hourly ranks or started in the lower ranks.
Motivate them, train them, care about them and make winners out of them. We know if we treat our employees right, they'll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they'll come back.
The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn.
If customers are treated right, they'll come back.
Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking my grandchildren and children to town in the boat for ice cream. . . And I realized there was nobody in the boat to help me dock the boat, handle the ropes, do anything. . . And I looked up and there was Mitt Romney. So he pulled me in, he tied up the boat for me. He rescued me just as he's going to rescue this great country.
I don't think I'm really interested in having a celebrity relationship. The music is the most important thing.
A really wise man is feminine, receptive, passive. That's why Buddha looks so feminine. That quality of passiveness, that quality of receptivity. . . He is just a receptacle. He reflects life: he allows life to reflect in him, to be reflected through him. He sings the song that existence wants to sing through him. He has no ideas of his own; he does not hinder.
In the 80s, if you wanted to make electronic music, it was a much tougher and more expensive process. For many people it would involve either spending loads of money on gear or else cutting demos in a proper studio. But I had this Casio keyboard and tape recorder and used to do stuff in my bedroom - I'd listen to Mantronix and all that. That was what I had so that's what I used.
There's something very intoxicating about playing someone so volatile and someone who can lose his temper at any second.